The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld

‘A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.’ From, The Fifth Elephant . ‘Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.’ From, Moving Pictures. The Discworld is filled with a vast and diverse population – from witches to vampires and from the fiendish to the foolish, it is a world in which magical books can devour the unsuspecting, and Death can escape to the country for some time off.

The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. Guaranteed to transport you back to your favourite or forgotten Discworld moments it is the perfect book for die-hard Pratchett fans, as well as anyone coming to the Discworld for the first time.

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Compiled by: Stephen Briggs

Publisher: Doubleday

ISBN: 978-0-385-61177-0 (hardcover)

First publication date: 28 September 2007